count your lucky stars like bugs in the screen door

hello!! today we have music out! for real! it's an EP/single/thing called lucky stars like bugs in the screen door. i hesitate to define it because paper moons is supposed to be on the album too... so it's just a bunch of cool songs. i wanted it to have it's own name like rainsnowmatch by braid instead of just naming it after paper moons. we recorded these in a lot of weird conditions over the past few months (like desi learning and recording all of sky wheel in less than an hour so we wouldn't have to spend another 30 bucks on renting a practice room), but i think it turned out rather good. it feels good. i hope you listen!

counting 'em
milo

silk strands on the window

it has come to my attention that not many people are aware of the existence of halloween goodie bag! which is a great shame i intend to repair.

halloween goodie bag is a project i started in october 2022 out of sheer panic that the album i had just released in september was unforgivably bad. i felt i had to prove, at least to myself, that i was capable of writing and recording a good song. so i gave myself a deadline of halloween and scrambled to write SOMETHING, ANYTHING. the result was weather spent, which is a song i'm still fairly proud of.



the next year i wanted to continue the tradition, so i established a real rule set designed to invoke the most horrible feeling in my chest on the night of october 30th: i must write a brand new song from scratch and record, mix and release it on halloween. nothing can carry over from september, it has to be brand new. and i have to up the ante in some fashion from last year's release. so i made a video:



for year three, who knows what i'll do! i don't even know yet, and it's the 9th! it's all in the spirit of the tradition to be stressed beyond belief all month until the very last moment. but i have a feeling it will involve my beautiful band and a magical little thing called not playing all the instruments yourself.

truly petrified
milo